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Learn how to turn make your electric home more efficient and healthy with Tim Forcey at Council's Green Event and Writers @ Stanton.

Book cover for 'My Efficient Electric Home Handbook'.

How to slash your energy bills, protect your health and save the planet. Everything you need to know to transform your home – old, new or rented – for an efficient, comfortable, cheaper electric future.

Do you want to make your home healthier and more comfortable in all seasons? Shrink your home's total energy costs? Make your gas bill disappear completely? Reduce your climate and environmental impacts? Make the change to renewable energy by going 'all-electric'?

My Efficient Electric Home Handbook is an essential first-of-its-kind resource for homeowners and renters. It provides tips and strategies on how to convert your home into an efficient, healthy and comfortable space suitable for our all-electric future. Sharing insights from working with thousands of Australians in their homes, as well as from hands-on experience modifying his own home, Tim Forcey explains best-practice heating and cooling, hot water heat pumps, induction cooktops, draught-proofing, insulation, solar energy and much more.

About the author

Tim Forcey is a home comfort and energy adviser, researcher and author. His expertise is widely sought and accessed by individuals, community groups, businesses, government bodies, members of Parliament and the media. Tim founded and contributes to the thriving My Efficient Electric Home online community.

He grew up on a dairy farm before pursuing a career as a chemical engineer working around the globe in fossil fuels, but left that industry after realising the climate crisis couldn't wait for him to effect change from within. Following roles with government, the University of Melbourne, and not-for-profit organisations, Tim now thoroughly enjoys helping people make important changes in their own homes.

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